Marvel’s new xenophobic, tiny-handed villain bears a striking resemblance to one Donald Trump.
MODAAK, an acronym for ‘Mental Organism Designed as America’s King’, appears in comic book artist Jason Latour’s Spider-Gwen Annual #1, and you can’t look at him without seeing the Republican Presidential candidate staring straight back at you.
As highlighted by Comicbook.com, the character is a reimagining of classic baddie MODOK (Mental Organism Designed Only for Killing), but a lot more, well, Trump-like. In the new Spider-Gwen issue, which is set in an alternate universe where Gwen Stacy (played by Emma Stone in the Amazing Spider-Man movies) is the one who gets the radioactive spider bite, MODAAK can be seen getting a bit of a beatdown from a female Captain America.
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Before Cap shows up Tru…MODAAK orders a civilian: “back on your feet, foreign filth!” to which they reply that they’re from Waco, Texas.
MODOK is one of the more recognisable Marvel villains due to his enormous head and comparatively tiny arms and legs. Trump, on the other hand, has famously been mocked by the US media for his small hands. Subtle, Marvel. Subtle.
This isn’t the first time American politics has been given the comic treatment. Earlier this year Storm Entertainment published graphic novels based on Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton. They were biographical, however, and we’re going to guess more flattering depictions.
